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The past is a only a good predictor of the future when the past resembles the present.
Hope I don't step on a landmine here, please take the following in "good faith".

This is something I've struggled with understanding. With all jobs I've had (stacking shelves, software dev) the lack of diversity hasn't been something I've at least recognised as the faults of the team / company. The reason the product hasn't achieved the deadline / high-praise is usually down to bad management, bad technical decisions, over promising, etc. Now if we had more women on the team, or more non-whites that could have changed things, but I'm still left a little sceptical that would have made a big enough difference.

The other problem is the what I call the "sports-team" problem (sorry if this has an actual name): when picking players for a football (soccer) team to, lets say, compete in the World Cup, you pick the best players you can get hold of - regardless of their "identity". If a diverse player doesn't want to join your team because of all the whites, then offer them more money if you think they are worth it. Why shouldn't this translate to software teams? Do you just end up with all the 10x "bros" and a bad product?

I get that more diverse = more moral. But does that mean your competition will be able to out-compete you? If that's the case then there's no hope if "go woke, go broke".
He's imagining! No such thing exists yet!
But my point is your friend may be wrong about A.I. causing the particular crash the same way my Dad is wrong about Angels.
You can still store up to 275L without a license, which is surely enough for the use case we're discussing. I can't help but think you're nitpicking.

However, I picked a random Council to see, and it looks extremely doable for a homeowner with the space to do so to get a license to store up to 2,500L. It's not even particularly expensive (£44 pa)

http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/community-and-safety/suffolk-tradi...
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I worry about them, but not more than people abusing AP, they're all in the same boat.

The people texting and driving are idiots, distracted idiots, but they have no misconceptions about if their car will save them if they take a nap.

Elon's made comments about "your hands are just there for regulatory reasons" and overpromised for years so now people abuse it until it's just as dangerous if not more dangerous than distracted driving (stuff like intentionally sleeping or using a laptop full time)

Other manufacturers are coming out with features that protect me from texting drivers without generating a new breed of ultra-distracted drivers like those who are falling for Elon's act.

Now a base model Corolla, pretty much the automotive equivalent of a yardstick, will steer people back into their lane and warn drowsy drivers that the car is intervening too much.

A Tesla can't even do the latter.

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One day we're going to look back and wonder why we allowed things like automatic steering without fully fleshed FSD.

I mean the driver is actually safer if you only intervene when something goes wrong. They're forced to be attentive, yet in all situations where they fail to be attentive and AP would have saved them... it does save them. And tells them to get their head out of their backside.

If AP did that every person it has saved would have still been saved, but a few people it got killed would still be here today.
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My understanding of quantum computing and what it can do is popular mechanics level at best. I have heard people dismiss bitcoin as inevitably insecure "because of quantum computing" and, conversely, I've heard people dismiss quantum computing as hype, the reality of which lies too far in the future to worry about.

Is the concern simply, "we don't know how this could change the computing landscape," or is something more like "quantum computing promises to calculate primes in O(1) time, rendering keypairs worthless"?

And how far out are we realistically?
I know a good one, but it's a UDP joke so I don't know if you'd get it.
That's very impressive, looks like Portugal is in a very good position for hydro there. Unfortunately I don't think there's huge scope for more hydro across Europe as it's very disruptive to build.

People have talked about tidal power for years (100% predictable cycle), but doesn't seem to have been any progress on that as there are so few suitable sites and they're all environmentally sensitive wetlands.
They go for cities where they feel like they have a chance, and where there are not already 10 other competitors. That's why they didn't go for e.g. London.

At least that was the original thinking of one of the founders, according to an article I read in some in-flight magazine.
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JetBlue flys Embraer 190s in the USA for shorter haul trips as well. Single aisle 2x2 type configuration.
It’s worth pointing out that the cost of a battery is effectively pre-paying for ~5 years of gas (how much you drive dependent). If you finance your used car (as many do when they buy used from a dealer) the lifetime costs and payment schedule would probably be about equivalent.
https://wolt.com/en/deu/berlin/article/berlin_deliveryarea

definitely covers more than what you're stating, but granted, if you're in Charlottenburg you may not have noticed them.
Let's hope they come to London, then.

Just last night i was marvelling at how poor the Just Eat UX is - marking an order as delivered when it wasn't, i think purely via a timeout after the scheduled delivery time, then sending me an email asking me to review the meal after i'd cancelled it!
I've got a 13 year old Prius and its battery is still working! I did have to replace its coolant pump a few years back, but it's still working after 174k, and it's a 2008 battery.
> The first airplanes had a clear commercial advantage over other methods of transport: speed.

And blockchain enables people to send value without intermediaries around the world in less than a few minutes.

Key point: without intermediaries. Any comparison with existing banking systems is moot.

> If the "things that need to be worked on before" don't include any of these cases, what do they include?

- How to get the systems safer to use, so that people can reduce their dependence on existing banking/financial structure.

- How to create other use-cases beyond transmitting value: to create credit systems (along with credit ratings, insurance instruments), to eliminate notaries and have blockchain be also used as a record of private property, deeds, etc.

- How to find a better point in the trade-off decentralization/permissionless/operational cost x centralization/permissioned/economies of scale. That is what Layer-2 solutions are about.

- How to develop and architect applications that make use of this technology without destroying value.

Do you need more?
In cold engineering terms, you should never put yourself in a position where somebody you don't control can shut down something you rely on, in such a way that you can't easily recover on your own. Especially if they're on a hair trigger to do it. This has been obvious from day one.
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Ah, you're one of the ones who actually is rational about things.

Put it this way: your liberty to spread your germs ends just where my nose begins. Else we're just permitting tyranny by another route.

Currently there's a very infectious and deadly germ on the loose, so -under the above rule- everyone's freedom becomes more constrained than we'd ideally like.

It's certainly evil; but it's not the human evil of fascism causing it, but rather the natural world evil of a pandemic.

I wonder if that helps any?
Same in Brazil. Whatsapp penetration is probably 99% here - only paranoid hackers don't use it.
I thought I was more careful with my wording. I do not mourn the killers happiness to do things, just the lost potential to society. Granted I have no idea what potential the two innocents had as well, if they happened to be academics, I would mourn their lost potential as well.
> Isn't there a `made in India` alternative trying to get into that ?

All the alternatives I know are backed by for-profit corporations. So privacy concerns still remain. Few notable ones I came across are/were:

Hike (was shutdown last week)
JioChat
ShareChat
Anecdote but even back 4 or so years ago I got a similar quote (10k) to replace a BMW engine with a new crate motor at the dealership. Let’s not make assumptions.
That's good to know, thanks! I guess I've just been lucky so far.
Last time I tried, I had to search for "(V)" or "(VG)" in the menu search to filter the dishes, maybe there's a better way?
Were these using trade winds? (ie Canaries to Caribbean westwards and NY to Cornwall eastwards)

Interesting to note that the sailing record nowadays are 3 1/2 days for west to east and 6 1/2 days east to west.
I don't buy that these people would ever give the peasants a jubilee.

It is strange territory for them, fraught with unforeseeable consequences -- can't really run the stats on something that hasn't happened in centuries.

And the old Malthusian terrors are, evidently, still very much on their minds -- now over climate rather than food.
Agreed that the name is a bit unfortunate, but they mention their non-affiliation every chance they get. And they do produce some pretty high quality live coverage of these events.
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This deal is getting worse all the time.
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Yeah, I remember Elon saying that they want to get rid of the legs.
Is that sarcastic about the coal plant? Depending on the plant, it's most likely better for the environment to forego ICE emissions and replace with BEV via coal. But even so, once you remove that coal, you have the BEV in place!
Somehow still more readable than actual J code
That's curious, I thought that wouldn't happen anywhere Whatsapp already had dominance.
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The US government could be one such organization capable of doing this, and even going one step further - they could bar these companies from operating max in our airspace or they could bar Boeing from selling them. I know this solution may be too likely to succeed, some may call it crazy ...
All intentionally. The blog did its one thing well and there was no more left to be said.
Some of us are fresh and young with our seven-digit numbers. ;) Missed out on a six-digit number by a couple of months.

While I still know my number by heart, I've been locked out of it for ages. I registered my account before they required an email for password recovery, and even if I had I lost access to the email address I would have used over a decade ago.
Smog is also a huge issue, so it might be a way of trying to tackle that.
I would say any wage is better than no wage at all, which is what delivery people make if there are no deliveries.
I’m referring primarily to Islamic countries where islam is the state religion. They’re argument is that it creates greater harmony
Me and my colleagues frequently discus how bad the UX of Wolt is, and how our favorite is the old-school hungry.dk.

Wolt is so slow and odd, and has a weird paradigm about adding copies of the same dish to the cart.

Some of the most basic things ("I want to see only pizza places that deliver to me") are not solved. What's the discovery tab even for?

I only like it (and suffer the UX) because it has live tracking of the orders. And because some restaurants are only available there.

I think people only prefer it because it looks more clean/modern, and not because it's easy to use.
ICQ seemed to struggle with competing with MSN Messanger and AOL Instant Messanger, despite the first mover advantage. While those on the net (at least in the UK) in the late 90s has ICQ, MSN and AIM seemed more popular with latecomers just a couple of years later. I guess Network effects aren't as strong when you have a rapidly growing market.

It was 20 years ago, but my lasting memory is that they went down the road of piling more and more adverts into the client, which certainly turned me off. That said I never had an AIM account and I rarely used MSN messenger.

There was something about that number though that makes it stick in my mind 20 years after I stopped using it. Perhaps it was a sign of both the time (when we remembered phone numbers) and my age (late teens), it was my first "identifier" that was mine - not the house phone number, and it predated widespread mobile numbers by a few years.
I am curious, what other British newspapers would you recommend for seeing a different perspective at Brexit?
Global warming is going to be disruptive on the scale of COVID (probably worse), and it's going to happen during our lifetimes.
None, unless somebody (China?) surprises us a with a working one specifically on the bitcoin blockchain.

Quantum resistance blockchain architecture is in the works or even available in theory and if the danger is real Bitcoin can be forked/modified to be quantum resistant. Because community would most probably be okay with this switch it would be accepted world wide.
Taste the sovereignty!
Not to mention why Raritan Township, NJ was renamed to Edison. I’m not sure sure you could make the case that anything Silicon Valley has produced has had more impact on daily life than what came out of Menlo Park a century ago.
It does take more energy to part water than air... at the same speed. Ships benefit in this regard from going much slower. They also benefit from floating by natural buoyancy rather than by burning fuel. Containers in particular are cost-effective because they are packed and stacked very densely -- a passenger ship would have to be uncomfortably cramped indeed to even approach that efficiency.
> we want someone to disrupt terrible cars.

Not me. All I want is something like a modern day Lexus or BMW, but with a Tesla drivetrain. They can leave everything else the same.
None of them alone can't do anything and they are used for total different purposes. You can organize the data in a way to include the same information stored in the data's.
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While this example is pretty dense, a "one page programming language interpreter" doesn't need to be so impenetrable. Here's a one-page (67 line) interpreter for a subset of the Jsonnet programming language, implemented in Scala:

- https://github.com/handsonscala/handsonscala/blob/v1/example...

From the top down, that snippet contains an AST definition, a parser, an object model, an evaluator, and an output serializer. This 67-line programming language interpreter is one of the projects in my book https://www.handsonscala.com/ (chapter 20), and while this example is minimal the same techniques were used for my production-ready Sjsonnet interpreter
Not sure, but very probably: the record was specifically between US colonies and England, so NY to Cornwall seems likely.
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In what way is Asia a monoculture?
That's cool for querying, I will have a deeper look thanks
That was indeed the original strategy. It's changing as the company grows though.
On most points here I’m in complete agreement, the only nit I would pick is that there should be room for fun insights like this. Articles that wouldn’t hold up under academic scrutiny, and woe betide the fool who bases their life outlook on an Office-based theory, but are fun to muse about, and to overthink a little bit, as you say, over beers with friends.

How do we allow for work like that to be done? I would hate for this kind of silliness to be lost because it isn’t rigorous enough.

Besides, the very people who would take this seriously are the same people who aren’t actively thinking and applying insights on how society interacts in their daily lives anyway.
I sympathise with what you're saying. As a Nordic person, it does feel like the gig economy is undoing a hundred years worth of advancements in employee well-being.

Still, enabling day labor is beneficial in multitude of ways.

The problems introduced by gig economy need to be solved at governmental level. Social safety nets and UBI are good tools for that.

Combining modern regulation with sharing economy would allow the society to enjoy the multitude of benefits of gig economy without sacrificing anyones well-being.
whatever happened to 7th sphere is what I want to know...
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Indeed. Autocracies work great when they make the right decisions, but work horribly when they make the wrong decisions. It’s basically the govt picking winners and losers rather than letting the market select for them.
> There are many other things you will do during that day that carry orders of magnitude more risk to hurt or kill you.

Indeed, the additional driving you might end up doing (if you reschedule your flight for a different day, for instance) is likely much more dangerous than boarding the plane.
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This quote is why software engineering isn't engineering. Civil engineer: "Civil engineering is a learning process; safe economical structures are just a side effect."
It's not unknown to have a driver snap the confirmation and then take the package. Anyone who does this will eventually get fired but it seems to happen. Personally, I've never had an issue with this but there's doorbell camera evidence of it, etc. I think people following the vans and stealing packages is way more common (orders of magnitude).
Exactly, look my reply to Fiahil a bit below.
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This is a real cause of worry for Amazon's retail business that has so much riding on its warehouse and logistics investments. In India, as hard as it is, Swiggy has started to turn the screws on the existing e-commerce model with Genie: https://medium.com/swiggydesign/swiggy-genie-the-design-stor...
The calculus changes when you factor in labour cost. If the transmission from your 1978 car gives out, will you take it into the shop?
Nothing cryptic about the word of Jesus Christ.

"Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house."

If the words of Klaus & Co. aren't setting off your alarm bells, I can't help you.
That's simply not true - of many makes of car, but BMW in particular. There are lots of issues with combustion engines which can be fatal - look at the issues with vanos bits dropping into them, camchain failures, etc.

I buy and sell cars as a side gig, and there are plenty of models which people like me would not touch with a barge pole because of issues like this - many of them German - and you'll find many for sale as spares or repairs, and find that secondhand engine supply is low (as many have blown up), and therefore expensive. Look at a diesel vauxhall insignia, for instance. Hand grenade engine, no chance of getting one secondhand (and even if it did, its got the pin pulled).
Yes i think i over inflated the number of cars required . https://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/#4 going through the data there are about 5 million drivers in Uber in 2019 . i will admit 100B$ in capex is a reasonable assumption But I cant imagine for practical reasons google , apple , Amazon putting a large % of their savings into still unproven tech with regulatory risk. Keep in mind that they would still have to compete with Tesla at somepoint which has a best car platform vs < X car company> in the market. Not to mention they already have close to 1 million cars with all the hardware(their claim, i still feel tesla TPU v2 with TSMC 7nm is a must have) and they are on track to producing 500k cars in US with these capabilities. while no other car company is even trying to integrate < X lidar autonomy startup> in mass production Today . Not to mention that currently the primary hindrance for Tesla is software which can scale much better in comparison to a ground up redesign of a car plant to accommodate lidar based systems .
> causing oxidizer rich combustion which eventually burnt up the engines

Which sometimes is called "engine rich exhaust". I love these sarcastic terms in rocketry. RUD, lithobraking, etc.
Well, that's not exactly correct. You can create a scheduled order up to a week in advance.
The idea of ethics is based on having some level of shared values. If we act collectively we can promote these values. In this case, if we collectively disagree with something then we can "punish" it by not engaging with it commercially. I'm not sure how the abstract sabotage suggested makes any difference if the reasoning behind it isn't expressed - giving someone exactly what they want is hardly a great long term motivator for change.
Living on the border of two such western countries, I'd like to point out that they are definitely taking measures (currently lockdowns) to keep things under control, the lockdowns have a very measurable effect on R, and the death rate in both countries is something like 1-2 orders of magnitude less than the USA.

Basically you're trying to control R. As long as you keep R under 1, you can increase and reduce measures to keep the disease under control. If R goes too far over 1, you bleeped up, and you need to resort to a lockdown to get it back under control.

The theory a lot of (european) western countries are working on is that they want to allow as much freedom as possible, but keep the worst of the disease out.

I'm not entirely convinced this is actually the strategy that optimizes freedom though. It might be better to use the method some asian countries used: close the borders, do maximum effort lockdowns anytime the virus shows up at all; and you might have less days total in lockdown or restrictions, and more days where you are free to go out and eat indoors etc.
Local laws are most definitely not taken lightly. Labour legislation in Finland, the initial market, is very strict.
The air quality in the west is better than it is in much less developed areas of the world. People live longer because of the use of fossil fuel and can live better lives spending less time on basic things like creating food and managing shelter to stay alive and they have more time doing meaningful things.

Fossil fuel industry is the industry that have made it possible for us to live longer, and feed as many people as we want while at the same time making the environments much cleaner over time.
My understanding is that civil engineering works that way too; the clients are just more willing to pay for enormous safety-factors.
I think one way to define math is “the collection of symbols we use to precisely explain natural phenomena”.

I can say “that rose is very pink” and that is accurate enough for most people. But if I want to know how much pink there is in the rose, I need a better descriptor than “very”.

So in that sense, Math is made up. It’s just the language we use to describe stuff when spoken/literary languages are imprecise.

But it also isn’t made up because there are objective justified truths behind its symbols. Aliens would probably have the same concepts, they’d just use different symbols.
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Just a note, according to all major sources, Biden won by 7,060,140 votes total. Not saying those 400k deaths may not have influenced certain key swing districts. But there was definitely a much larger gap than 'thousands'.
> These are social and political problems, you can't fix them by sitting in your basement writing copyleft code anymore than you fix them by writing permissively licensed code.

This is true. But just because you can't fix something by yourself, doesn't mean that you should contribute to, or participate in, the problem.